The Lounge Lizards
| The Lounge Lizards | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Jazz , no wave , punk jazz |
| founding | 1978 |
| Founding members | |
| John Lurie | |
| Evan Lurie | |
| Arto Lindsay | |
| Steve Piccolo | |
| Anton Fier | |
The Lounge Lizards is a New York jazz band founded by saxophonist John Lurie in 1978. Lurie initially described her music as fake jazz .
history
The band initially ironicized the attitude of jazz and combined “the wildness of punk with the cool poses of the film noir era.” The band's first album was produced by Teo Macero and was released in 1981 on Editions EG. In November of the same year they played for the first time in Germany at the Jazzfest Berlin .
Several other bands emerged from the band, in 1983 first The Golden Palominos around Anton Fier and Arto Lindsay , then in 1990 the Jazz Passengers with Roy Nathanson , Curtis Fowlkes , Marc Ribot and EJ Rodriguez . In the 1990s, Steven Bernstein , Michael Blake and Calvin Weston belonged to the band, which was continued by John Lurie; also played there David Tronzo and Doug Wieselman as guitarist and Billy Martin and Ben Perowsky as drummer and John Medeski . The band's last album so far was released in 1998. Lurie largely broke off his musician career after 2000 due to illness.
Voice of Chunk and two other albums by the band were produced by Vera Brandes and released on their label veraBra.
style
Building on the bebop jazz, elements of classical and popular music were blurred in an eclectic manner , which resulted in Lurie's concept of fake jazz . The Musikexpress judged the band's playing as “a strictly organized pseudo-anarchy, which was agreed upon and flirted with the history of jazz and the codes of the film music using prefabricated patterns.” Alluding to the wealth of attitudes of the protagonist John Lurie, Rolling Stone joked that music sounds like "reconstructed jazz from someone who rarely listens to jazz."
Members
- John Lurie - soprano , alto saxophone (1979–1998)
- Evan Lurie - piano (1979-1998)
- Anton Fier - drums (1979–1981)
- Steve Piccolo - electric bass (1979–1981)
- Arto Lindsay - electric guitar (1979–1981)
- Danny Rosen - guitar (1981)
- Dana Vlcek - guitar (1980)
- Tony Garnier - electric bass (1983)
- Peter Zummo - trombone (1983)
- Douglas Browne - drums (1983–1988)
- Erik Sanko - electric bass (1986–1988, 1998)
- Marc Ribot - guitar (1986–1988)
- Roy Nathanson - saxophone (1986–1988)
- Curtis Fowlkes - trombone (1986–1988)
- EJ Rodriguez - percussion (1987–1988)
- Oren Bloedow - bass (1991)
- Jane Scarpantoni - cello (1991-1998)
- Calvin Weston - drums (1991-1998)
- Michele Navazio - guitar (1991)
- Billy Martin - percussion (1991)
- Michael Blake - saxophones, clarinet (1991–1998)
- Steven Bernstein - trumpet , cornet (1991–1998)
- Bryan Carrott - vibraphone , marimba , Timpani (1991)
- Ben Perowsky - drums (1998)
- David Tronzo - slide guitar (1998)
Discography
- 1981 Lounge Lizards (EG)
- 1983 Live from the Drunken Boat (Europe)
- 1985 Live 79-81 (ROIR)
- 1986 Big Heart: Live Tokyo ( Iceland )
- 1987 No Pain for Cakes (Iceland)
- 1988 Voice of Chunk (veraBra)
- 1991 Live in Berlin, Vol. 1 (veraBra)
- 1991 Live in Berlin, Vol. 2 (veraBra)
- 1998 Queen of All Ears (Strange and Beautiful)
Web links
annotation
- ^ Interview with Lurie , 2010, accessed on August 28, 2013
- ↑ Wolf Kampmann (ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .
- ↑ Archive of the Berlin Festival .
- ^ ZEIT review of the Berlin Jazz Festival 1981 by Rainer Höynck.
- ↑ a b Rock Lexicon / Barry Graves; Siegfried Schmidt-Joos; Bernward Halbscheffel, one-time special edition, Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2003, vol. 1, p. 547 f.
- ↑ Music archive
- ↑ The Lounge Lizards / Biography ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
